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> As for me, I see great differences between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Hillary seems so much false to me, she got all her money from political activities and lobbying, she is a slave of moguls, she is bought and sold. She never had to work hard and never risked everything she had. Her words don’t meet her actions. And her collision with the DNC turned the primaries into farce.

> Opposite to her, Donald Trump has earned his money himself. And at least he is sincere in what he says. His position is straight and clear.

So... good hacker. Crappy political commentator.

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1) Compile a bunch of publicly available information into a large package and "leak" it. Call it a hack.

2) Call yourself Guccifer 2.0

3) Post a well-written-in-English FAQ that conveniently attacks Clinton with the same tired shit meanwhile praising Trump.

This is some extremely thinly veiled bullshit.

He definitely doesn't sing Trump's praises that much. In fact in the very next sentence he says he disagrees with him on some pretty key issues of his platform.

where exactly do you think these documents were public? the Clinton camp itself said they were hacked

I've wondered about this too. The documents leaked so far certainly don't have anything interesting.

Why do you expect anything else from him than just stating his own opinion?

Mine is roughly the same btw, for as much as I care.

> just stating his own opinion

Yup. I'm just judging his opinion with my own opinion. Which is that he (and you) are wildly misreading those candidates if that's what you really believe about them.

He's allowed to state his own opinion every bit as much as others are allowed to state their opinions that his is stupid.

Just to clear some facts... Trump inherited lots of money, some people argue that he barely made more than he would investing his inheritance in an index fund.

In addition, he frequently changes his opinion and is pretty much the opposite of "straight and clear", except of course for a few themes that he constantly champions ("ban Muslims", "build the wall", and a very underspecified "make American great again"), but e.g. he can't even make up his mind on how much the wall will cost.

(Don't take this comment as an endorsment of Hillary, she's most likely a liar and deplorable in so many ways, in addition her positions are very maleable, but make no mistake, Trump is no better. It really is a choice between a disaster and a catastrophe.)

> Trump inherited lots of money

Do you have a source for that? My understanding was that he received a $1MM loan from his Father after graduating business school.

and then inherited 100's of M when his father died.

No. Do you?

As I said, it's a contentious issue, plagued by bad data and deliberate misinformation. I doubt anyone knows the facts, not even Trump himself. But, Googling e.g. "trump wealth" brings up a few articles that discuss the source (and evolution) of his wealth.

That's the only point I was trying to make. There is a lot of misinformation flying around on both sides and it's useful to know where the information came from so one can determine its veracity.

His dad was worth ~$250M at the time of his death... Given the family dynamics, I'm assuming he didn't bequeath that wealth to charity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/29/the-m...

Aside from the cash loans, he was made an executive in his father's real estate firm which owned a bunch of buildings in Manhattan.

His father would further help prevent his businesses from going bankrupt by illegally propping up Trump's NJ casino with a $3.5M gift in the 1990s:

http://articles.philly.com/1991-04-09/news/25780577_1_casino...

> Trump inherited lots of money, some people argue that he barely made more than he would investing his inheritance in an index fund.

True, but like all businesses in the economy his company has the distinction of actually participating in economic ventures to create wealth. Owning shares in the S&P500 isn't creating anything.

To me that's a clear difference that isn't considered enough. And let's not forget that most mutual funds themselves don't beat the S&P500, so a lot of investors don't even capture those returns.

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